Solitaire
March 3, 2009 10:44 PM Subscribe
What is the name of this solitaire card game?
Here are the somewhat lengthy rules, as a friend of mine wrote them:
In this game a standard 52-card deck is dealt face up as follows:
A tableau of 15 3-card stacks, staggered so that the suit and rank of each card is visible
Three 2-card working stacks, staggered as above.
One starter card, which begins a goal stack for the suit dealt. Three other goal stacks (one for each remaining suit) will be created during the game.
The object of the game is to move cards among the stacks such that all cards end up in the goal stacks, subject to the move rules, below. We will abbreviate the three kinds of stacks as T(ableau), W(ork), and G(oal).
In the following, "source card" refers to the card being moved, and "destination card" refers to the top card of the destination stack.
1. Cards may only be moved from tops of stacks to tops of stacks.
2. W and T stacks may not exceed 3 cards in depth.
3. Rank is circular, such that Ace immediately precedes 2, 2 immediately precedes 3, ...
Q immediately precedes, K, and K immediately precedes Ace.
4. A new G stack may be started with a card from a W or T stack provided:
a. the card has the same rank as the starter card.
5. An existing G stack may receive a card from a W or T stack provided:
a. the source card's suit matches the destination card's suit, and
b. the source card's rank directly succeeds the destination card's rank.
6. An empty W stack may be restarted with any top card from a W or T stack.
7. An existing W stack may receive a card from a T or W stack provided:
a. the source card's color differs from the destination card's color, and
b. the source card's rank directly precedes the destination card's rank.
8. An empty W stack may be restarted with a pair of cards from a W or T stack provided:
a. the upper source card's color differs from the lower source card's color, and
b. the upper source card's rank directly precedes the lower source card's rank.
9. An existing W stack may receive a pair of cards from a T or W stack provided:
a. the upper source card's color differs from the lower source card's color,
b. the upper source card's rank directly precedes the lower source card's rank,
c. the lower source card's color differs from the destination card's color, and
d. the lower source card's rank directly precedes the destination card's rank.
10. An empty T stack may not be restarted.
11. An existing T stack may receive a card from a T or W stack provided:
a. the destination stack is 1 or 2 cards deep,
b. the source card's color is different from the destination card's color, and
c. the source card's rank is one lower than the destination card's rank.
Note that the number of W stacks may not exceed the original 3.
Here are the somewhat lengthy rules, as a friend of mine wrote them:
In this game a standard 52-card deck is dealt face up as follows:
A tableau of 15 3-card stacks, staggered so that the suit and rank of each card is visible
Three 2-card working stacks, staggered as above.
One starter card, which begins a goal stack for the suit dealt. Three other goal stacks (one for each remaining suit) will be created during the game.
The object of the game is to move cards among the stacks such that all cards end up in the goal stacks, subject to the move rules, below. We will abbreviate the three kinds of stacks as T(ableau), W(ork), and G(oal).
In the following, "source card" refers to the card being moved, and "destination card" refers to the top card of the destination stack.
1. Cards may only be moved from tops of stacks to tops of stacks.
2. W and T stacks may not exceed 3 cards in depth.
3. Rank is circular, such that Ace immediately precedes 2, 2 immediately precedes 3, ...
Q immediately precedes, K, and K immediately precedes Ace.
4. A new G stack may be started with a card from a W or T stack provided:
a. the card has the same rank as the starter card.
5. An existing G stack may receive a card from a W or T stack provided:
a. the source card's suit matches the destination card's suit, and
b. the source card's rank directly succeeds the destination card's rank.
6. An empty W stack may be restarted with any top card from a W or T stack.
7. An existing W stack may receive a card from a T or W stack provided:
a. the source card's color differs from the destination card's color, and
b. the source card's rank directly precedes the destination card's rank.
8. An empty W stack may be restarted with a pair of cards from a W or T stack provided:
a. the upper source card's color differs from the lower source card's color, and
b. the upper source card's rank directly precedes the lower source card's rank.
9. An existing W stack may receive a pair of cards from a T or W stack provided:
a. the upper source card's color differs from the lower source card's color,
b. the upper source card's rank directly precedes the lower source card's rank,
c. the lower source card's color differs from the destination card's color, and
d. the lower source card's rank directly precedes the destination card's rank.
10. An empty T stack may not be restarted.
11. An existing T stack may receive a card from a T or W stack provided:
a. the destination stack is 1 or 2 cards deep,
b. the source card's color is different from the destination card's color, and
c. the source card's rank is one lower than the destination card's rank.
Note that the number of W stacks may not exceed the original 3.
Best answer: I remember something like this game from my obsessive reading of According to Hoyle, as a child, but the available edition in the house is apparently too old to have it.
It might be something like Shamrocks or the related La Belle Lucie, but your rules look a little different from both--you may just have learned a variation of one of these two games.
posted by that girl at 7:24 AM on March 4, 2009
It might be something like Shamrocks or the related La Belle Lucie, but your rules look a little different from both--you may just have learned a variation of one of these two games.
posted by that girl at 7:24 AM on March 4, 2009
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posted by o0dano0o at 6:32 AM on March 4, 2009